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Krišjānis Sants & Erik Eriksson – Vērpete

August 23rd, 2025 Norrlandsoperan, Umeå
August 25th, 2025 Gävle Teater, Gävle
August 28th, 2025 Folkets Hus, Säter
August 30th, 2025 Dansnät Jönköping, Jönköping
September 2nd, 2025 Dansstationen, Malmö
September 4th, 2025 Dansscen Örebro, Örebro
September 6th, 2025 Festival Platforma, Maribor
October 12th, 2025 Hanzas Perons, Rīga
50 minutes

In the Midst of
a Natural Force

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Vērpete (vortex, whirl), the creators-performers Erik Eriksson and Krišjānis Sants take the principle of a turning couple – a movement that is more familiar in games, folk and ballroom dancing – as a starting point and develop it into a dance of precision, speed, trust and exhilaration. As they vortex through the space, turning hand in hand, the performers bring the audience together and take part in dynamic patterns of repetition. The dancers create a paradox by committing to support one another through opposition, collaborating by constantly pulling apart. Vērpete is accompanied by live music of vibraphone and guitar, creating a dense and embracing soundscape, performed by Mārtiņš Miļevskis and Rihards Lībietis. 

The audience shares the same space as performers and many have described their experience as if finding themselves in the midst of a natural force, perceived first by the body and then by the mind.

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Alice Ripoll & Hiltinho Fantástico – Puff

August 19th – 24th, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh (Special Preview)
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Festival Actoral, Marseille
45 minutes

A Solo of Disguise

© Camille Blake

Puff explores the concept of “disguise” as a recurring element in dances of the African diaspora—an element that transmits silenced cultures by concealing techniques, messages, traditions, or ancestral knowledge. The work explores the development of footwork techniques such as extremely rapid steps and the dissociation of body parts, which create illusions and suggest that something is being deliberately hidden from view. Puff—a light breath—also carries, in Portuguese, the meaning of something that vanishes as if by magic.

This solo performance marks a continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, who have been working together for the past seven years within the SUAVE and REC dance companies. Both collectives develop a hybrid language that merges contemporary dance with Brazilian urban forms. The two artists have collaborated in acclaimed works such as Cria, Lavagem, aCORdo, and Zona Franca, which have toured major festivals and theaters around the world.

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Isaiah Wilson – Score

August 12th – 24th, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
30 minutes

Body and Technology

© Brian Ca

Score is a contemporary dance performance that investigates the relationship between human body and technology. Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) sends electrical impulses to involuntarily activate the performers’ muscles. Using EMS, choreographer Isaiah creates a movement language shaped by computational code rather than conscious intent.

This work blurs the lines between biology and machine, asking urgent ethical questions about the use of emerging technologies in both artistic and everyday contexts. As tools once designed to improve life begin to outperform and even replace the human body, Score critically examines what is lost in terms of agency, identity, and cognitive autonomy.

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Kinetic Orchestra – Bolero

August 12th – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
45 minutes

An Acrobatic Bolero

© Petra Kuha

Bolero is a duet in which a Bolero-named duet is practiced and prepared.

Two dancers specialised in acrobatics and floor technique have become tools of the classical artist’s genius, but inspiration is running low, and the choreography is not progressing. The pressure is high,
and emotions are heating up as they struggle to create something final. The work atmosphere is tense, the humour is dark, and the dance is dangerous.

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Hani Dance – INLET

August 1st – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
60 minutes

About Walls and Borders

© Andrea Galad

Walls have played a significant role throughout human history, both physically and mentally. They act as boundaries, fortresses, and barriers, shaping our interactions and perceptions. In the dance piece INLET, choreographer Saeed Hani and his international ensemble delve into the concept of walls and borders, exploring their relevance in today’s world.

Inspired by the legend of Rome’s founding, where a wall holds symbolic importance, Hani raises thought-provoking questions. Growing up in the Middle East, he has experienced firsthand the limitations imposed by walls, not only physically but also morally and intellectually. Hani challenges the glorification of these barriers, questioning their impact on human progress and the denial of individual freedom. Through INLET, Hani goes beyond traditional contemporary dance, creating a multidimensional experience.

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Chunky Move – U>N>I>T>E>D

July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
September 26th – 28th, 2025 da:ns focus, Singapore
November 20th – 21st, 2025 Camping Asia, Taipei
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Freespace Dance, Hong Kong
55 minutes

Machine Mysticism

© Gianna Rizzo

U>N>I>T>E>D is the latest work in the canon of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s ‘speculative future’ performances, following recent innovative dance experiences created by the company such as Token Armies (2019) and Yung Lung (2022).  

Exploring ‘machine mysticism’ and the persistence of spirituality in a post-industrial digital age, the work is a major international collaboration with leaders in the Javanese experimental scene, Gabber Modus Operandi Bali-based streetwear label Future Loundry, Australian global leaders in animatronic design, Creature Technology Co., and a stellar line up of six dancers.  

Drawing from its artists’ individual artistic and cultural practices, U>N>I>T>E>D will be an exhilarating melding of sophisticated movement, infectious music and science fiction-inspired design, that honours technologies both ancient and contemporary; inner and collective.

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Collectif Foulles – Medieval Crack

July 5th – 6th, 2025 Festival de la Cité, Lausanne
60 minutes

The Medieval Happy Hours

© Julie Folly

In Medieval Crack, Collectif Foulles, accompanied by historian Clovis Maillet, goes in search of the queer cracks in medieval history — those hidden spaces that allow other narratives, identities, and dances to emerge. In a bid to reappropriate time and history, the collective gleans material for emancipation from the representations and relics of the Middle Ages. Yes, the medieval period also had its happy hours of enlightenment and freedom.

The collective questions the shifts in meaning inherent in the mapping of our bodies — both past and present. All of this is captured with great mischief in a living fresco full of relief and gaiety.

Collectif Foulles—made up of Collin Cabanis, Auguste de Boursetty, Délia Krayenbühl, Emma Saba, and Fabio Zoppelli—has existed since 2018. It all started with affinities, friendships, jokes, and a meeting.

A desire to dance together, to share music, images, and texts—to share a host of things with a host of people. In their work, their most diverse passions come together in a jumble, with no hierarchy. Their approach is precise and respectful, but also celebratory and generous. They weave threads of discussion and tension, maintaining complexity—crossing time with the joy of a battalion.

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Ocean Stefan – Blood Show

June 27th – 28th, 2025 Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
70 minutes

An Endless Battle

© Kirsten McTernan

Three figures, 75 liters of fake blood, an endless battle – Blood Show is a call to put what’s inside on the outside and defend oneself against violent gazes. This cyclical feat of endurance and precision is a euphoric trans celebration of destruction – including our own – in order to create something new. Questions revolve around the concept of rebirth and the ghosts we carry with us. Blood Show is the second performance in Ocean Stefan’s “Extinction” trilogy – an experiment to reflect on the limits of the human body. Why do we want to know what people “really” look like? How dangerous is the idea of the “natural”?

Ocean Stefan makes work with runs across performance, installations, texts and film. Their artistic practice moves in the in-between and in superimposition – it celebrates the living and the blurred. Ocean Stefan is interested in the gray areas of life and questions the fixed.

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Tero Saarinen – Study for Life

June 24th – 25th, 2025 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
July 30th – 31st, 2025 Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz
80 minutes

A Sensory Experience

© Mikko Suutarinen

Tero Saarinen’s new creation delves into the music of Kaija Saariaho. In Study for Life, a group of six dancers, nine musicians of the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, soprano Raquel Camarinha, and innovative electronic sound design that interweaves Saariaho’s compositions, bring her nuanced and delicate world to life. This work confronts the contemporary human desire to be moved and envelops the spectator in a powerful sensory experience.

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Akram Khan & Manal AlDowoyan – Thikra: Night of Remembering

June 22nd – 24th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 29th – August 1st, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
August 17th, 2025 Santander International Festival, Santander
September 19th – 21st, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
September 26th – 28th, 2025 Théâtre Sénart, Lieusaint
October 2nd – 18th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
October 28th – November 1st, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
November 5th – 6th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
November 11th – 12th, 2025 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
November 19th – 20th, 2025 Tanz Köln, Cologne
65 minutes

No Future without a Past

© Camilla Greenwell

Thikra: Night of Remembering is Akram Khan Company’s latest production created in collaboration with award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan.

Thikra draws inspiration from AlUla’s ancient landscapes, mythology and cultural heritage to evoke the idea that “without a past, there is no future.”

Blending Bharatanatyam with contemporary, the piece is performed by a collective of all-female voices, accompanied by an original score from Aditya Prakash, sound design by Gareth Fry, lighting by Zeynep Kepekli and dramaturgy by Blue Pieta.

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